Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
7/18/1909
Place of Birth
Des Moines, Iowa, USA
Also Known As
Peggy Lou SnyderHarriet Hilliard NelsonHarriet Nelson
Harriet Nelson
Biography
Harriet Nelson will always have a secure place alongside Barbara Billingsley and Jane Wyatt in the "TV's Golden Age Mom Hall of Fame." For fourteen years, she, husband Ozzie Nelson, and their two boys, David Nelson and Ricky Nelson, were the quintessential role models of the '50s ideal nuclear family. Harriet, the daughter of actors, was practically born in a trunk. She made her debut amid the footlights at age 6 weeks with her parents. The Iowa beauty attended St. Agnes Academy in her early years. Quite a dazzler in her youth, she was playing vaudeville when she attracted the attention ...
Known For
Disneyland '59
as Self
Cocoanut Grove
as Linda Rogers
Honeymoon Lodge
as Lorraine Logan aka Jenny Hockadayl
Death Car on the Freeway
as Mrs. Sheel
Smash-Up on Interstate 5
as June Pearson
The Falcon Strikes Back
as Gwynne Gregory (as Harriet Hilliard)
Follow the Fleet
as Connie Martin
New Faces of 1937
as Patricia
Canal Zone
as Susan Merrill
Hi, Buddy
as Gloria Bradley
The Kid with the 200 I.Q.
as Prof. Conklin
Confessions of Boston Blackie
as Diane Parrish
A Christmas for Boomer
as Grandmother Sinclair
The First Time
as Charlotte
The Life of the Party
as Mitzi Martos
Here Come the Nelsons
as Harriet Nelson
Gals, Incorporated
as Gwen Phillips (as Harriet Hilliard)
Hi, Good Lookin'!
as Kelly Clark
Sweetheart of the Campus
as Harriet Hale
The Movie Orgy
as Self (archive footage)